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"A hard day’s night?" The effects of Compressed Working Week interventions on the health and work-life balance of shift workers: a systematic review (2008)
Journal Article
Bambra, C., Whitehead, M., Sowden, A., Akers, J., & Petticrew, M. (2008). "A hard day’s night?" The effects of Compressed Working Week interventions on the health and work-life balance of shift workers: a systematic review. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 62(9), 764-777. https://doi.org/10.1136/jech.2007.067249

Objective: To systematically review studies of the effects of the Compressed Working Week on the health and work-life balance of shift workers, and to identify any differential impacts by socio-economic group. Methods: Systematic review. Following QU... Read More about "A hard day’s night?" The effects of Compressed Working Week interventions on the health and work-life balance of shift workers: a systematic review.

Welfare state regimes and differences in self-perceived health in Europe: a multi-level analysis (2008)
Journal Article
Eikemo, T., Bambra, C., Judge, K., & Ringdal, K. (2008). Welfare state regimes and differences in self-perceived health in Europe: a multi-level analysis. Social Science & Medicine, 66(11), 2281-2295. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.01.022

The aim of this study was to determine the degree to which welfare state regime characteristics explained the proportional variation of self-perceived health between European countries, when individual and regional variation was accounted for, by und... Read More about Welfare state regimes and differences in self-perceived health in Europe: a multi-level analysis.

Shifting schedules: the health effects of reorganizing shift work (2008)
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Bambra, C., Whitehead, M., Sowden, A., Akers, J., & Petticrew, M. (2008). Shifting schedules: the health effects of reorganizing shift work. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 34(5), 427-434. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2007.12.023

Background Approximately one fifth of workers are engaged in some kind of shift work. The harmful effects of shift work on the health and work–life balance of employees are well known. A range of organizational interventions has been suggested to add... Read More about Shifting schedules: the health effects of reorganizing shift work.

Health inequalities according to educational level in different welfare regimes: a comparison of 23 European countries (2008)
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Eikemo, T., Huisman, M., Bambra, C., & Kunst, A. (2008). Health inequalities according to educational level in different welfare regimes: a comparison of 23 European countries. Sociology of Health & Illness, 30(4), 565-582. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9566.2007.01073.x

The object of this study was to determine whether the magnitude of educational health inequalities varies between European countries with different welfare regimes. The data source is based on the first and second wave of the European Social Survey.... Read More about Health inequalities according to educational level in different welfare regimes: a comparison of 23 European countries.

The welfare state: a glossary for public health (2008)
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Eikemo, T., & Bambra, C. (2008). The welfare state: a glossary for public health. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 62(1), 3-6. https://doi.org/10.1136/jech.2007.066787

Recently, there has been a surge in comparative social epidemiology, and a sizeable amount of this has examined the relation between different aspects of the welfare state and population health. Such research draws strongly, though usually implicitly... Read More about The welfare state: a glossary for public health.

The psychosocial and health effects of workplace reorganisation 2 : a systematic review of task restructuring interventions (2007)
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Bambra, C., Egan, M., Thomas, S., Petticrew, M., & Whitehead, M. (2007). The psychosocial and health effects of workplace reorganisation 2 : a systematic review of task restructuring interventions. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 61(12), 1028-1037. https://doi.org/10.1136/jech.2006.054999

Objective: To systematically review the health and psychosocial effects (with reference to the demand–control–support model) of changes to the work environment brought about by task structure work reorganisation, and to determine whether those effect... Read More about The psychosocial and health effects of workplace reorganisation 2 : a systematic review of task restructuring interventions.

Going beyond The three worlds of welfare capitalism: regime theory and public health research (2007)
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Bambra, C. (2007). Going beyond The three worlds of welfare capitalism: regime theory and public health research. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 61(12), 1098-1102. https://doi.org/10.1136/jech.2007.064295

International research on the social determinants of health has increasingly started to integrate a welfare state regimes perspective. Although this is to be welcomed, to date there has been an over-reliance on Esping-Andersen’s The three worlds of w... Read More about Going beyond The three worlds of welfare capitalism: regime theory and public health research.

The psychosocial and health effects of workplace reorganisation 1: a systematic review of interventions that aim to increase employee participation or control (2007)
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Egan, M., Bambra, C., Petticrew, M., Whitehead, M., Thomas, S., & Thompson, H. (2007). The psychosocial and health effects of workplace reorganisation 1: a systematic review of interventions that aim to increase employee participation or control. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 61(11), 945-954. https://doi.org/10.1136/jech.2006.054965

Background: The "demand control support" model of workplace health may help researchers, practitioners and policy-makers understand how psychosocial interventions can improve workplace health and reduce health inequalities. We conducted a systematic... Read More about The psychosocial and health effects of workplace reorganisation 1: a systematic review of interventions that aim to increase employee participation or control.

Defamilisation and welfare state regimes: a cluster analysis (2007)
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Bambra, C. (2007). Defamilisation and welfare state regimes: a cluster analysis. International Journal of Social Welfare, 16(4), 326-338. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2397.2007.00486.x

The role of gender as a source of social stratification within and between welfare states is increasingly being paid attention to in the welfare state regimes debate. Defamilisation has emerged as a potentially important concept in this context, as i... Read More about Defamilisation and welfare state regimes: a cluster analysis.